it's funny how wrong the experts got the quick bottom in oil (and me too, but I'm not an expert). The poeple on CNBC (Kilduff, Stork, Gartman) were all bearish, Goldman Sachs energy analyst was bearish (lower for longer) and some people on Twitter were all bearish (@energyrosen, who shut down his account after being very wrong). All the banks were predicting lower for longer and $40 oil. One guru who got it right was Dan Dicker, who said that the flattening curve meant that you should load up on oil stocks. There was a Canadian guy who went on CNBC and said "oil to $80" and he got laughed off the set, so that was probably a good sign that oil was going higher. So why were the experts wrong, both on the decline and on the quick bottom? I think the problem is that they were looking at the typical supply and demand that moves oil prices *in the ordinary scenario.* But we are not in an ordinary period, and these periods come along infrequently. The normal indicators don't apply - so looking at supply draws, crack spreads, etc didn't matter. What's been happening recently is that speculators are willing to sit on oil even when it doesn't pay and there is no arbitrage, that's how bullish they are. Of course we may see a double dip, but right now it looks like oil will not go below $40 again. Of course my record on oil is 100% wrong, so oil has probably hit a high.